Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, March 26, 1908, Image 1
THE FORT MILL TIMES. I
16TH YEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY MARCH 26, 1908 > () - , I
BRYAN WRITES
And Thanks The State For Fight 4
Against Misrepresentation.
WANTS A FREE PRESS
Dut Thinks the Will ot' the People
in Every State Should Have
Voice, Not the Wishes of a Few
Itule or Huin Newspaper*. Show*
I'p the New York World and It*
Editorials.
Lincoln. Neb., March 13, 1908.
Mr. Wm. E. Gonzales, Columbia, S. C. r
My Dear Mr. Gonzales.. . .1 appre- e
elate the fight which you are making v
against the misrepresentations in- c
dulged in by the New York World
and those who echo meir editorials e
It Is not for me to discuss the ques- *
ton of availability of candidates. 1 f
have never stated that I was the t
most available candidate or that 1 ?
could poll the most votes. That is u
not a question upon which my judge- I
ment ought to be ventured or ac- >
cepted. I have simply stated that It C
is a question for the voters of the c
party to determine. n
As u Democrat 1 have resented the
claim that a few editors should de- G
clde this question for the people. I T
um a believer in free press and I a
recognize the right of any editor, t
whether his circulation be large or w
small, to state his opiniou and his h
reason for it, but those who read his ti
opinion have a right to give it such o
weight as they think it deserves. I n
have insisted that the readers ought ji
to know what pecuniary interest the a
editor has in the questions under a
discussion. ti
For Instance, I asked The World
to state editorially what financial interests
its owner. Mr. Pulitzer has
iu the stocks or bonds of railroads E
and in the stocks and bonds of corporations
commonly known as trusts.
The World has not seen fit to answer
the question. He is reputed to
be interested in a number of cor- tl
porutlons which are affected by leg- s
i-i-.i? ? i-i- ?j? ?- -? *
iBiauuu, uuu it 1 b rvuuoro art; euuutfu
to know what his Interests are. If hi
he hus Interests adverse to the In- c,
terest of tno public, he Ib not a disinterested
judge as to candidates or hi
platform. r(
If he has interests that would be j,
Injuriously uffected by -legislation Hj
needed by the people, then his opln- u
Ions are worth no more than theopln- tj
ons of Mr. Harrlman or Mr. Rockefeller.
I do not ueuy the right of C|
Harrlman. or Morgan, or Rockefel- tI
ler, of Pulitzer, to own a paper and
present their views to the public, but
I do contend -nat In the Interest or aj
honesty and fair dealing, the owner jr
of the paper should be known and h
the Inter.st of the owner in the questions
frankly stated.
The World's unfairness is evidenced
In every editorial. In the first ^
place It Ignores entirely the election ?
of 1804, when the Democratic party
was overwhelmingly defeated. This g(
election occurred before I had any y
influence in national politics. It oc- n
curred when the party was being con- _
ducted along the lines laid down by
The World.. It is deliberately unfair tl
In Ignoring this election and charg- I
Ing the defeats of 1896 and 1900 to tl
me, just as it is unfair in ignoring o
the still worse defeat of 1 904, when I
It was again the party's adviser. si
It is simply prophesying when it tl
says thnt I can not carry any States it
that I lost before, and that some o
other Democrat can. How does It n
know? What gift of phophecy has *
it? It thought In 1 904 that Judg* i
Parker would prove a popular cenrll
date. It demanded his nomination tl
and It advised him each day as t' i
what he should say and do. Wha' \
evidence can it furnish that it ha; i
more Intelligence today than it had .'i
then, or that its prophecies rest on n
a firmer foundation? ?
There nro several papers In your J
State which were against me In 1896
and have been aganat me ever since, d
I do not know whether It is because I
of a difference of opinon as to what c
ought to be done, or whether they tl
are connected with Interests that are h
hostile to the things which I have o
been advocating. There are several ti
pnpers In the United States which v
are known to ho owned, iu whole or
In part, by the corporate Interests, o
which they defend, but I would not s
make such a charge against the pap- q
era of your State, becuaso I have no c
knowledge as to the ownership or us p
to the corporate interests with which n
the owners may bo connected, and I I
prefer to assume that the differences r
are honest differences unless 1 have p
evidence to the contrary. p
^ However, it is only fair to say t
that these unfriendly editors, howev- c
er honest they may be, are only so <]
many individuals, and according to i
the Democratic theory, they are en- t
titled to such influence only as their l
fellow-citizens may voluntarily give \
to their opinions. If the voters differ c
from these editors it must ho reinem- \
bered that they have a right to dlf- t
. fer. and if it should prove that the ^
voters are mistaken In judgment, i
they can console themselves with the
reflection that the editors unfriendly t
to nie have also been mistaken in j
Judgment, as is shown by the defeat 1
of 1904. [
L. 4. ..
HEAVY DAMAGES
[J1VBN MOTHER AXI? UTTER HON
WHO WKKG
ttuflly RuiDrtl bjr Coining in I'outait
Willi a Lire Wire on the Street*
of Florence.
A dispatch from Florence to The
<ew8 and Courier says the highest
rerdlcts ever awarded by a Florence
bounty Jury were recorded Thursday
n the cases of Mrs. Maude Laughlin
ind her little son. Lawrence Laugh
hi. uuiii ui wnora were norribiy
)urned by an electric wire in Flc-r
>nce laBt August. against tnc Flor>nce
Electric Light and Power t.om>any
and the Southern Public Servic*
Corporation Mrs. Laughlln. who t
isked $50,000 damages, was award- '
>d $17,000, and Lawrence Lnughlin,
vhoBe suit was for $25,000 damages,
ibtalned a verdict for $8,000.
Judge Dantzler promptly overrultd
a motion for a new trial, as he
lad previously overruled a motion
or a non-suit, baBed on the ground
hat it had not been proven that the
louthern Public Corporation was in
nv way connected with the Florence
-lght and Power Company. The case
vill be appealed to the Supreme
Jourt. ThlB was one of the biggest
aBes ever tried in the Court of Comaon
Plens In this county.
Mrs. Lauglln is the wife of Mr.
leorge W. Laughlln of Florence,
'he injuries for which 6he has been
warded damages were received on
he 19th of last August, while she
. as trying to rescue little Lawrence
er only eon, who had become en igled
in the street near the corner
r Ravenel and Cheeves streets. Both
lotlier and son were so badly inured
that it became necessary to
mputate Mrs. Lauglilin's right hand
nd right foot, and the larger poron
of Lawrence's right hand. *
TWO ELEPHANTS AT LARGE
scape from Circus in Florida and
Make for Georgia.
Chief of Pallce Dampier, of Valosta,
Gu., received a telegram from
ie Van Am berg Shows, at White
prings, Fla., stating that two of
ieir elephants and escaped and were
eaded for Vuldosta, where the cirus
wintered.
Later reports which have reached ?
ere say the elephants have been snrninded
nine miles from Geona. Fla.. a
y a crowd of farmers with guns, '
nd that the big animals were fired Q
pon, the shots only infuriating
ism and causing them to dash away.
Three or four traluers from the g(
ircus are hurrying to the scene to
y and capture them. Telegrams (j
om White Springs say the people In ^
le country through that section are
Imost terrorized and are organizing u
1 great numbers for a big elephant .
unt.
a
Fatal Explosion.
The boiler at the saw mill of G.
J. Moore at Homeland, (In., blew w
p Friday morning, killing ' Mr.
loore, the proprietor, instant.y, and ,x
srlonsly scalding three other men. j
Ir. Moore was one cf tlio wealthiest 0
ien in that section of the State. * ^
I am not asking for any honors at
lie hands of the Democratic party; ''
have been honored far beyond anyilng
that I could claim as a matter c
f right or as a matter of merit, and r
especially appreciate the generous
upport that has come to me from 1
le Southern Stntes. It has been grat- 11
'ying to me to know that my Dem- 1
cracy has been satisfactory to the 8
ank and file of th6 Democrats of the n
outh, as well as to the rank and ^
le of the Democrats of the North. ''
If the Democratic voters belioxe v
iant 1 can assist the party by bein; '
. i.. r
tjuiiumuic why b.iuiimi i remte.
aid why should 1 take the advice o 1
few editors who have never been s
riendly rather than the advice of c
lillions of Democrats who have been 11
olaborers with me for more than a '*
ecade? R
The policy of the party muat be ?
eterinined by the voters and when
discuss Democratic prinicples I dis- t]
hps them with the understanding r
hat I have no power to coerce, as 1 li
ave no disposition to coerce. I can o
nly persuade, and I have never tried i
o persuade others to believe except t
/here 1 have myself believed.
You have as much right to your r
pinion as to any other editor, and t
urely your Democracy can not he H
uestloned when you, unlike some |
ither editors, propose to test the ,
iopularity of measures and of t
uen by the vote of the people, j
'opular government rests upon the t
Ight of the people to rule and every j
arty. If it deserves a place under a ?
lupium m>v t-i II IIM'IH , mum ictuguiAi:
lie right of the voters to rule. Power
omen up from the people and not
lown to them. You are on sound '
lemocratic ground when you insist i
hat the destinies of a candidate,
ike the destinies of a country, must
?e placed in the hands of those who
lo the voting, tor to he Democratic
ve must believe In the capacity of
he people to govern themselves, as
veil as in their right to self-governnent.
Again thanking you for your gen?rous
defense of tlie principles and
policies for which 1 am contending.
aoj, Very truly yours.
W. J. Bryan
WENT FOR TEDDY
Senator Tillman Arraigns Presi- 1
dent's Encroachment On
LEGISLATIVE POWER.
He Says Congress Is Subservient to t
the President's Will, and Says He 1
I
Exercises Too Much Influence on r
the Other Departments of the Gov- '
eminent. House Declared to be I
1
Speaker's Tool.
With a caution unusual for him. '
a
Senator Tillman reecntly read a part r
jf his speech in the Senate, in which r
le denounced Executive encroach- 1
nent on legislative power. With this
ipparent caution he proceeded to de- J
iver one of the most direct and de- -j
lunclatory addresses ever heard in h
hat body. He was given a careful 5
tearing. Ills speech was based on fc
lis resolution instructing the coniniitee
on finance to inquire whether na- s
ional banks of New York are in the /
labit of furnishing permaneut capi- q
al for speculative enterprises, etc. t
The resolution was adopted. s
Mr. Tillman traced what he termed 9
1 "swinging of the pendulum" from |j
he regime of Andrew Jackson, when s
Congress assumed control ' tost to 2
he exclusion of the Pre-; cut from 9
egislative influence, to iii- a.lminisrations
which followed which, he y
leclared. witnessed a gn wih 01" Presdential
powers. The ?? limiting in- f,
luence and control M the Executive 4
iranch over the legislature and in a 5
ogreo over the judicial branches of 2
he Government were the most mark- a
d features of the American politics at j
his time. "It has tasen," said Mr.
'illman, "just forty-one years for the
endulutn to swing front one extreme j,
3 the other." t]
"Now," he said, "the House of
Lepresentatives has degenerated Into a
ittle more than a recording machine ^
a do the will of the Speaker and his j
eutenants." Freedom or debate In
tie old and true sense has disappeard
from the other end of tho Cap- n
ol, he added. In the Senate "ser- ^
lllty and cowardice are the order ^
f the day," he declared, "and the ^
hadow of the Executive hangs over ^
11 and the President's wishes are [t
lmost the only law. _
"There is," he added, "some show n
f resistance on matter affecting the a
lultl-milllonalres and the great cororations.
The Presldeut writes
cohling messages and makes inflam- ~
natory speeches appealing to the ^
nthinking and ignorant masses. He
as the potent influence of the press ^
t his command; he has used the
ewspapers and magazines in exploitig
what he calls 'my polities' with
skill and daring that compel admir- j
tion. With hated breath Senators
enounce his radical ideas in pri- .
ate and oppose in every possible
ay the measures which ho clamors ^
or by the passive resistance of nonction.
No one of the dominant pary
dares lift his voice in opposition
r denunciation, but the Executive ^
nfluence is the only influence in evl
once, while the Senate cowers in si- J
snt. resistance.
"The cause of this condition," de- ^
lared Mr. Tillman, "is Federal patonage."
. g
"The theory that the Senate must
idvlse and consent' before appoint- j
tents are made," he said, is of lit- ^
le or no moment when Senators show '
0
uch want of courage and self-respect
nd bow submissively to the orders ^
roni the White House. The mem- j(
ers of the minority party, of course, ^
rere largely ignored. Appointments f
n the South, where the Democracy ^
etains control, are in the hands of
referees' who fill the offices for the J'
ole purpose for maintaining ma- v
bines. The Senators of the doml- ,
lant party nre afraid to resist the ^
xccutlve will, lest they themselves (
hould fail to obtain the patronage
f their States." ^
They have also, he declared, a ^
Ire.id lest they should he forced into
etirement When clashes have come 0
ictween the President and Senators c
ir Representatives the people have ^
n almost every instance sided witu
he President, he said. r
"The people, poor, simple souls, t
ending the special pleas and rophls- t
leal excuses of Repuhlicaa editors, t
re hd to think the Presided*, alone a
s honest and patriotic," said Mr Till- 1
nan. "They believe religiously ihnt r
uu ovu<in> im vm rupi aiir. me \^\ nite t
louse debauched and that the volt- c
ies?my politics, which are so ex- 1
doited in the press?must prevail i
ind become law before any relief can c
>e obtained. Senators who do not s
igreo with the Executive and who
efuse to obey his will must be re- 1
ired. Congressmen who resist Exec- 1
itive dictation must be replaced by I
hose who will obey . c
"In the mad rush to placate the 1
legro vote we may expect to see be- t
'ore the Chicago Convention meets, 1
o quote a great New England paper, t
"the President reviewing the re-en- 1
isted battalion on the White House i
<reen, after which there will be lun- 1
%heon at the Executive mansion.' ]
The President's notion in that was I
hasty and unjust, inasmuch as the I
innocent were punished along with <
the guilty, but It is a pitiable spec- <
/
THE COTTON CROP
FOR LAST YEAR CiOES OVER
ELEVEN MILLION DALES.
\
riie Census Report Liunl by the
Department of Agriculture Liven
the Total Figures.
The census report issued Friday
shows that the cotton crop grown in
1907 aggregated 11,261,163 running
mles, counting round as half bales
md Including ilnters, and showed a
otal of 27,o77 active ginneries for
L907. This is against lo,305,265
mles in 1906, and 10,725,602 in
.905.
The statistics include 177,646
laies returned as remaining to be
finned after the tieni of the March
anvass. The total numboi of runilng
bales as given is equivalent to
1,302,872 of 500 pounds each.
The average gross v/eight of the
ales for 1907 is 501.8 pounds. The
tern for the crop of 1907 are 10.98,596
squure bales; 198.549 round
ales; 86.793 sea island bales; 198,49
round bales; 86,793 sea island
ales; linters 27 6,500 bales.
Tiie number of running bales imitates
follows: Alabama 1.12G.02S;
vrkansns 760,162, Florida 57,616,
leorgia 1.891,900,- Kansas 34, Kenucky
4,205, Louisiana 676,823, Misissippi
1,464,207, Missouri 35,97,
New Mexico 4 4 7. North CnroIna
648,517, Oklahoma 864.106,
outh Carolina 1,175,375, Tennessee
74,536, Texas 2,27 1,724, Virginia
,4S6, Kentucky's total includes liners
of establishments in Illinois and
rirginia.
The linters Included 276,500 bales
or 1907, 322,064 for 1906 and 230.97
for 1905. Round bales are 198,
49 for 1907, 268,219 for 1906. and i
79.S36 for 1905. Sea island bales <
re 86.893 for 1 907, 57.550 for 1906. <
12,539 for 1905.
Average gross weight of the bales
or 1907, including linters as given, i
i against 501.9 for 1906; that of i
lie round bales is 2 4 6.1 pounds for i
907, compared with 2 4 5.1 for 1906.
nd the sea island 3 91.6 pounds for <
907, compared with 387.2 for i
906. i
Watson's Close Kstimate.
The State says when the governlent
estimate on the cotton crop for i
907 came in the estimate made in
loveniber by Commissioner Watson's ;
epartment was compared with the
gures issued from Washington and 1
. was found that there was a differ- i
nee of only 13,498 bales In the l
gures on the South Carolina arop i
nd 109,957 oil the entire crop of i
tie United States. <
t
lcle all the same to see the mad 1
ace for negro votes. <
"Mr. Roosevelt Is .always loudlouthed
and even vehement In the
roclamatlon of his own purity of
urpose and patriotism. He has ah- <
Mute faith In his own infalihility and
i apparently so drunk with power
nat he unconsciously lapses into the
nperlal 'we' and sends cablegrams (
bout 'me and my people.' But these
tilngs are of small moment?'vaga- 1
les of a noble and impetuous spirit,' '
nd we could pass them by were it 1
ot for the existence of cold-blooded
acts to show Executive responsibil:y
for many of the evils which exit
without dispute."
Paul Morton, as vice-president of
he Santa Fe Railroad, said Mr. Tilllan,
"in the rebate cases laid himelf
open to indictment and liability
a personal punishment, but the Preslent
peremptorily refused to permit
lessrs Judson and Harmon to proscute
him." |(
Senator Tillman denounced Presient
Roosevelt for not prosecuting
jnd grafters, and Senator Reveridge
nterrupted to say that the only diferenco
between the President and
Ienator Tillman was that the former
rosecutes upon evidence and the
fitter without it. Mr. Reveridge
/anted to know why Senator Tillman
n his flood of messages has not covred
the subject. Mr Tillman replied
hat If Mr. Reverldge "wants me to
nake more criticisms than I have the
ienator from Indiana is a great big
;lutton."
Mr. Tillman reviewed the events
f the recent currency crisis and
harged Wall street with many mlslemeanors.
"The profits of this nefarious stock
nongering have," he said, "found
heir way into the pockets of the
rer.v man who with evil results of
heir fraud manifest pose as 'saviors'
ind 'and crowned kings' and are
auded to the skies when they were
eally trying to save themselves from
he disasters which threatened to
?verwhelm them along with their deeded
victims. One of these 'savors'
had done more than any other
>f the money kings to deluge the
itock market with watered stocks."
A long review was given by Mr.
"leverfdee of Democratic nolitics. and
le declared that a conference had been
i??d In Washington for the purpose
>f coming to a plan for asking for
3ryan not to again be a candidate on
he Democratic ticket, but when Mr.
Ftryan was there, he said, not one of
hem had the courage to tell him
ivhat they had planned to do. This
datemont called forth denials from
*tr. Tillman. Mr. McCleary and Mr,
Ftainey, all of whom declared that
there had never been any idea of asking
Mr. Bryan not to run on the Demacratic
ticket and that stories to that
-Sect were mere myths.
TALE OF HOROR.
Men and Women Beaten on Certain
Islands.
HORRIBLE PICTURE
Bjr Gen. Plonaer, Who Says II? Has
Soon Children ISenten Vntil Tholr
Blood Covered tlu- Ground Around
Cocoa Plantations. Plea to Portugese
Gonernmont. to Have It
s topped.
At Washington a vivid description
of atrocities alleged to bo perpetuated
upon slave laborers on cocoa plantations
on the Islands of Principe
and Saint Thomfl. Portugese West
Africa, was given in an address on
"Children's Lives in A.frica," Uy j
Gen. Joubert Pienaer, of South Africa,
of the International congress on 1
tho welfare of the child, under the
auspices of tho National Mother's
Congress. 1
"The atrocities I have" witnessed i
in Portuguese West Africa have tak- I
en such a hold upon mo," declared
Gen. Pienaer, "that I cr.ut myself l
loose from all my business and leav- 1
ing my family thousands of miles '
away, I have consecrated my life to f
the freeing of the men and women j
that are daily being done to death .
and the little children that I have 1
seen beaten until the blood flowed to l
the ground." ?
The speaker said that he had form- i
pd an association with the Intention jl
of petitioning the Portuguese gov- i
eminent on behalf of tho slaves to
establish missionary settlements to t
civilize and Christianize them and*"
to act as a guard over the slave Irado
and to report the atrocities to I
the association i
"This seems to me," ho said, "the 1
only effective way of putting a stop f
to this iniquity." Ho asked for the js
support of the Mother's Congress in f
his mission of humanity. |r
After statins that " the cruelties
meted out to those degraded human
heings on tho mainland were beyond
description," General Pienaer t
lontinuod: "children are torn from
the breasts of mothers and sold as
?laves. Slaves in the employ of their
task masters are beaten to death,
men tuu women and chlldrjn are
mutilated. Often a native has been
done to detth he is quartered and
the different portions of his body are .
hung on the trees to terrorize the
other natives.
CAN'T DO IT AGAIN.
Congressman James Says Corruption
Funds Defeated Bryan Twice.
t
Loud Democratic applause groet- c
ed Congressman James while making c
a speech In the House on Tuesday, ^
tl
when he asserted his belief that in
\
the last two campaigns against Mr. f
Bryan, "but for the corruption <
brought by the Republicans on the c
monopolies and trusts of the country (
Bryan would have been elected Presi t
ldent of the United States."
Mr. Bryan, he said, stood for something
and had convictions and the
courage to express them. "He has \
never prostituted his garments for
money," he said. "He has never sold
the love of the American people for
corporation gold."
"The people of the country," he (
said, would "in just time do proper
meed and credit to the man who
draws the naked sword In their defense
and In their rights," and he
believed that these people, "are going
to elect for President that grand,
that splendid, that matchless Democrat:
W. J. Bryan.
l>KOPS I>EAD.
While Looking at tile Corjwo of a
Drowned llaby.
r
In Dunklin Township, in Green- j
ville County, three miles front Green- r
ville, the 1-year-old child of Joe Sayles,
colored, fell into a tub which
drowned. The child's mother had
left it alone to go into the house and I
when she returned it was dead.
The news quickly spread through
the neighborhood and a number of
people gathered at the house, among r
thein .Too Jordan, the 18-year-old q
son of Mr. J. IT. Jordan. Ho walked i
up to the tub, in which the child had ^
been drowned, looked at it and drop- <
pod dead. t
;ur. juruHu says nis son nan a nar- .
row escape from drowning in the <
same manner when a child. The hoy f
had a weak heart and it Is supposed r
that the recollection of his narrow t
escape when a child and the horror j
of the negro child's death caused a f
shock to his system which resulted t
in his death. 1
Corset Killed Her.
At Rrigham, Utah, Mrs. Carl Gunklc
laced her corset so tightly that
she crushed her heart, causing the <
blood to shoot to her head. Her (
husband, hearing her fall, ran to the ;
room and summoned a physician, hut i
Mrs. Gunkle was deud before the <
doctor arrived. *,?
| AWFUL TRAGEDY.
JUDGE BUCHANA . SHOT WHILE
HIDIN" ON TRAIN.
He is Fatally Wounded a-'-id Is Taken
to a Hospital in Angustn Where
He Died. /
A dispatch from Augusta to The
News and Courier says former Judge
O. W. Buchanan, of Winnsboro, S.
C., died there Tuesday at 11*30
o'clock as the result of the 22-calibre
rifle wound which he received while
sitting in a railway car at Ward's
Station. S. C., Monday afternoon.
Judgo Buchanan was coming from
Winnsboro to Augusta and was sitting
by an open wndow reading a
newspaper when without warning
the small leaden missile whizzed
through the opening and buried itself
in his right side, the shot having
been fired by some unknown party,
the only theory entevlaMted lu-re being
that it was a strav outlet fired
by some person practicing shooting.
The wounded man was brought
to this city and an oporaM m at i)t.
r. It. Wright's private sanitarium
resulted in the successful extraction
>f the bullet, but the Intestines had
been pierced in several places. The
remains were taken to Winnsboro
Tor interment.
Judgo Buchanan wns to meet a ,
jartjr in Augusta composed of liis (
arothers-in-law, Messrs. .Tames H.
rillinan, A. R. Fuller, of Laurens,
vnd his sister-in-law, M**s. Q. A. ]
[lunch. He was siting in a sett with ,
lodge Lyon, and as the train was ,
earing Ward's Station, thirty-five .
miles from Augusta, he exclaim- ,
?d that a brick had struck him, arose
'rorr. his seat, and in a few m'nutes ]
ater fainted from the shock of his ,
&ouud.
A dispatch from Edgefield says ^
hat three boys were out hunting
lear Ward's and one of 'Won ecci- f
lontally shot In the train with a rifle,
t is reported that the boys have been (
irrested, but no names are given and ,
t is impossible to get authentic inorniation
as to the real facts of the j
iad tragedy. It is su iposed that a ^
ill investigation will be had and the
natter clarified s
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WANTS THE FACTS.
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Tillman Asks Pointed t^uesiions e
About Some Hank Transactions.
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Senator Tillman introduced a res- 1
dution calling upon the Senate com- 1
nittee on finance to conduct an in- c
'estigation and answer some pointed
luestions bearing upon financial d
egislation. Among the questions- i
isked are as to whether the national s
milks of New York York are in the r
labit, under the guise of commercial c
pans, of furnishing permanent capi- t
al for speculative or other enter- i
irises; whether the Treasury Depart- l
nent had knoweldge of the loans by jf
lie National Hank of North America ]t
if New York, which are the subject
if a suit by the receiver against C
V. Morse, and of other similar transitions
In other national banks; 1
vhether the national banks are engaged
by themselves or through othjr
organizations in attempting to
control or dictate the legislation of s
Congress upon the currency quesions.
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SHOT FROM AMBUSH. r
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riiree Men, All Prominent, Shot From ?
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Convent Grounds. n
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Dr. Glovonni Grana, a prominent ^
thysician; his brother in law, John 1
)rofino, and a friend, Alfonso Mole, r
vere shot from ambush in Ybor City, j
"la., by four men, who hud secreted f
hemselves in the grounds of St. v
Joseph's Convent. Mole will prob- i(
tbly die, the others being only slight- j
y wounded. All are Italians, and r
he shooting is believed to be the remit
of a Black Hand Plot. Five ^
housand dollars was demanded from
)r. Grana several weeks ugo, and he : v
lad also been warned to leave the i
Ity. Demands have also been made j
in other prominent Italians, and |
nuch alarm has prevailed in the j ^
talian colony. The police have arested
five Italians on suspicion.
HAN AWAY FltOM SCHOOL.
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I'oung Boy Killed While Biding In" (
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derneath Express Car. t
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Young Dean, the son of a promilent
citizen of Langley, was killed
i im:ouuy ?uri uwum un inu ciur.il iu i hi
ino between Langley and Warrenrillo.
near Aiken. It seems that he
illpped off or ran away from school
ind got on the Augusta-Aiken ex)rosa
car. It Is supposed that he *
dther fell off or was shaken oft.
ailing on the track and was then '
un over by the car. The men on |0
he express car. it is said, did not J
enow anything about the matter and j
he boy remained on the track until
he car bound for Aiken came up a '
Ittlo later. The affair is a very de- f
dorable one.
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Legally Hanged.
At La Grange, Ga.f Ingram Cana- I
lv, a negro assailant, was hanged In I
he jail yard Friday afternoon at
1:15 o'clock. Canady wns convicted
it the last November term of court 1
it cruiioaliy assaulting Mrs. ltosa ; f
Joues, __ _
FIGHT A DUEL |9
Gen. Fock MortellY wounds Gen.
Smirnoff^at Close Ringe.
PISTOLS WERE USED. j
Smirnoff lU'lltftcd Upou Brother Of* *3
fleer's Qualifies in Memorandum
. .on Seine of Port Arthur. Duel
Takes Plnee in Itenimentul Hiding
Seliool in St. Petersburg in the
Presence of Men and Women.
At St. Petersburg, Russia, Lieut
uuuerw amirnoir was probably fatally
wounded in a dtiel fought Wednesday
morning with Lieut. Gen.
Fock. I
The men were in the riding school
of the Chevalier Guard regiment and
fought with pistols, standing close
to each other when the shots were
exchanged.
The duel was caused by a memorandum
written by Gen Smirnoff on ^
the selge of Port Arthur, In which jl
he questioned the courage of Gen. jfl
Pock.
The latter considered that his hon- 9
or and reputation was involved and
challenged the author of the memo- jy
randum. jilfl
The duel, occurred with the full
knowledge and approbation of the
military authorities. It was witnessid
by several oflicers of high rank,
md it is even reported that several
women were present. -tjjjH
Shortly before 10 o'clock Gena.
Pock and Smirnoff appeared nt the
'iding school. Without saluting they
:ook tlio places assigned by their
ieconds.
The duelists were instructed to
Ire until one or the other was bit. J,
Vt Fock's fourth shot Smirnoff groan>d
and sank wounded in tho abdonen
above the hip.
The word "fire" was given hy Gen.
virsieff, tho Russian authority on
Inciting.
At the third exchange Smirnoff
iccidentally fired prematurely, but
i'ock magnanimously declined to v
hoot nt a defenceless opponent, and
he fourth and final shots were then
xchanged. .
The duel will bo followed by
.nother between Fock and Gen. GorlatoiTsky
who was criticised by .
''ock during tho court-martial pro- f
eedings.
Gen Smirnoff was nctlng commanlant
of the Port Arthur fortress durng
the selge and at the time of its
urrender to the Japanese. After his
eturn to Russia ho prepared a seret
report of the defense of Port Arhur
which was tho basis of the
ndlctments on which Gen. Stossel,
Jeu. Fork and Gen. Reiss were tried
or their lives before court marla
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MIST I IK I)KA1>.
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lope No l/onRor Knterlnincd for the
.Modern Crusoe.
All h^pe of finding Fred Jeffs, a
ailor who was stranded on Indefati:able
Island, in the Pacific ocean, has
icon practically abandoned. The
cuuhoat Yankton, which was sent
roin Cailao to hunt for the missing
eanian, has arrived at Acapulco,
lexico, and the commanding officer
eported to the navy department that
10 trace of Jeffs has been found,
vhick is taken to mean that he is
lead.
That Jeffs must have experienced
nany more hardships than those rented
of Robinson Crusoe, is evident
roni the nature of tho island upon
vhieh he was stranded. Indefatigble
or Santa Cruz Island, is on the
iquator, entirely uninhabited save by
nonster turtles and venomous replies
of the tropical regions. The
earehing party believe that Jeffs
ould not. have lived long after he
vas wrecked, on .May 8, 1907. *
THIRD TO 151'IIX Sl'.I.F.
Hsronsolate Ik-cause llis Young Wife
Had Left Him.
Hecauso his young bride deserted
dm, Agossan Teba, of Martins
jreek, N. J., piled a lot of wood
inder his bed and set fire to it. Then
timing on the gas in the room he
ay down on the bed and tried to
:o to sleep. The bed took fire and
reba would have burned to death
tut for the timely arrival of neightors
who saw the flames and forci>ly
carried him from the house, lie
tegged them to leave him alono and
;ald that ho did not caro to live,
le was terribly burned and the hoatital
physicians say ho may not re:ovor.
Itryau Will Win.
representative Johnson, who la at
lomo at Spartanburg for a few days
fom Washington, says ho believed
dr. Ilryan would bp elec d Prefllent.
In fact, many Republicans be
ieve Mr. Ilryan will be the roxt l'res
dent nnd n Democratic Ilo'iao of
Representatives will be chosen
Ten Were Injured.
Ten persona were injured, none
;erloualy, in a trolley ear accident at
Philadelphia yesterday.